N(quite)P #2: There Will Be Blood

[Daniel Harper]

If anyone is interested, I have reviewed both the book and the movie on my
blog.

The book: http://danielharper.blogspot.com/2008/01/booklog-oil.html

The movie:
http://danielharper.blogspot.com/2008/01/movielog-there-will-be-blood.html

I'm no professional reviewer, but comments are welcome!

On Jan 14, 2008 9:51 AM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> Sign me up. I can't recall looking forward to a Movie as much as "There
> Will Be Blood."
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Monte Davis" <monte.davis at verizon.net>
> > 1) See it on the big screen. It's the most PHYSICAL movie I've ever
> seen,
> > tensing and wringing out the audience, and would surely be diminished at
> > home.
> >
> > 2) AtD-ness:
> > - 1898-1927
> > - a bit of hard-rock mining and then early oil in California (more like
> > mining than today's oil industry)
> > - a tycoon in the making -- although Vibe is a pussycat by comparison
> >
> > 3) un-AtDness:
> > -  up close and personal. Bigger social, political, economic contexts
> are
> > only lightly implied, quite unlike the nominal inspiration (Upton
> Sinclair's
> > _Oil_!) or Frank Norris, Dreiser, etc.
> > - myth and magic are ever-present, but less articulate, more under the
> radar
> > than in TRP
> >
> > 4) why you should see it ASAP:
> > - Daniel Day-Lewis' performance is awesome and terrific in the full
> sense of
> > both, and will be talked about for a long long time.
> >
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Monte Davis" <monte.davis at verizon.net>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:34:00 +0000
> Subject: N(quite)P #2: There Will Be Blood
>
> 1) See it on the big screen. It's the most PHYSICAL movie I've ever seen,
> tensing and wringing out the audience, and would surely be diminished at
> home.
>
> 2) AtD-ness:
> - 1898-1927
> - a bit of hard-rock mining and then early oil in California (more like
> mining than today's oil industry)
> - a tycoon in the making -- although Vibe is a pussycat by comparison
>
> 3) un-AtDness:
> -  up close and personal. Bigger social, political, economic contexts are
> only lightly implied, quite unlike the nominal inspiration (Upton Sinclair's
> _Oil_!) or Frank Norris, Dreiser, etc.
>
> - myth and magic are ever-present, but less articulate, more under the
> radar than in TRP
>
> 4) why you should see it ASAP:
> - Daniel Day-Lewis' performance is awesome and terrific in the full sense
> of both, and will be talked about for a long long time.
>
>


-- 
...the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules are
words...
--Daniel Harper
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